Red One SSD Nirvana

[Greg M]

We are changing over our Red One MX bodies to SSD media...what an upgrade!

Having up to 256GB of internal SSD media is the way it should be...no more drives and cables hanging off the body. This is a must have upgrade for Red One users. The 64GB SSD seems to be the perfect compliment.

First test yielded 26+ minutes on a 64GB SSD drive at 4K HD RC42...more test coming.

 

[Loic Parent]

great! thanks for the photos!
can't wait to get rid of the drive and cables..
were you on the red drive waiting list or are you a "new order"? just to know if backorder liwt is fullfiled yet.

 

[Stephen Lovett]

It's great to see these are starting to ship, I can't wait.

Steve

 

[Gunleik Groven]

Finally!

Eirik???

 

[Peter Matthes]

...were you on the red drive waiting list or are you a "new order"? just to know if backorder liwt is fullfiled yet.

I'll second that question.

 

[Dane Brehm]

Very Nice!

I bought a few SSD RedStations to prepare for when the drives go bye-bye.

Thanks for posting.

 

[Greg M]

Ive been on backorder for awhile.

 

[Eirik Tyrihjel]

Finally!

Eirik???

Not yet, RED puts priority on those who have been waiting for drives and media... and I haven´t.
I hope they get these in huge quantities soon.

 

[Gunleik Groven]

Then I might see some before you... -

 

[Greg M]

Red One MX- 4K HD - RC42 - 23.98

64GB- 26.5 minutes
128GB- 53 minutes
256GB- 1hr 45 min

I'm really liking the 64GB drives...the perfect size for Red One IMO. I think I'll order more of these for the R1's and use the other sizes on our Epics.

 

[Gunleik Groven]

I guess there's no limits to RC 42 recording on these... Maybe even at higher framerates?

(worth a question, at least...)

 

[Greg M]

I guess there's no limits to RC 42 recording on these... Maybe even at higher framerates?

(worth a question, at least...)

i doubt it...I think the same frame rates apply here for R1.

I can not get 4K 16:9 RC42 on the SSD, if thats any indication.

 

[Gunleik Groven]

That's an indication...

 

[Alexander Ibrahim]

i doubt it...I think the same frame rates apply here for R1.

I can not get 4K 16:9 RC42 on the SSD, if thats any indication.

If I understand...

It indicates that the camera part, not the disk part, is the bottleneck.

If it was the disk part you wouldn't be able to write RC42 at any frame size/rate.

 

[Greg M]

1 hr 45 minutes on the 256GB SSD...more than I usually need.

 

[Jon Carr]

Maybe next firmware build update can raise the frame rate of RC42 and 4k 16:9 on RC42 on SSD's?

 

[Gunleik Groven]

I'd have thought so.

I am looking more foreward to less compression at higher framerates, though.

But it is possible that the R1 cannot throughput any more data.

 

[Tom Lowe]

I gotta get it. Are the Red Stations available for these? I imagine download to the computer is pretty fast with those?

 

[Greg M]

testing download speeds now...although I need to wait on a new esata card for the ultimate results.

 

[Rainer Fritz]

As I read on a threat from deanan they should deliver up to 250MB/s download... and I believe the writespeed is nearby... thx for your tests and pics Greg!
Have you tried to use 4.5kWS in RC42 and then activate the varispeed to 30fps? That would be very interesting if that is working properly...
Hopefully we could get an update on the lower compression possibilities... thought also if it would be possible that we can use lower compression with faster media...
the pics are looking incredible btw, fewer cables and less boxes/weight makes a lot sense...